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David Buss
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American psychologist known for researching human sex differences in mate selection and for co-developing sexual strategies theory, considered one of the founders of evolutionary psychology.
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1. Wikipedia: David Buss
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researching human sex differences in mate selection. He is considered one of the founders of evolutionary psychology.
1. Wikipedia: David Buss
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Buss is the author of more than 200 scientific articles and has won many awards, including an APA Distinguished Scientific Award for Early Career Contribution to Psychology in 1988 and an APA G. Stanley Hall Lectureship in 1990.
Wikipedia: Sexual Strategies Theory
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SST defines the set of mating strategies that humans pursue, the adaptive problems that men and women face when pursuing these strategies, and the evolved solutions to these mating problems.
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